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Mythology, Madness and Laughter – The Mythological Being of Reflection 1.0
Guest post from Michael Burns. – APS In section 1.0 Gabriel sets the stage for the rest of his essay and begins to lay out the stakes of the confrontation between Schelling and Hegel. He begins with a...
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Mythology, Madness and Laughter – The Mythological Being of Reflection 1.1
Apologies for the somewhat belated posting. I’d planned on typing this out last night, but had a sudden onset of food-borne nausea. It was the food or seeing Boston beat Cleveland in Game Six of the...
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Mythology, Madness and Laughter – The Mythological Being of Reflection 1.2
It’s good that somebody raised the issue of ecology, particularly as it relates to the dissolution (& emergence) of the self, in the comments of our previous post, because this seems to re-emerge...
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Mythology, Madness and Laughter – The Mythological Being of Reflection 1.3
I must confess that I feel somewhat unsuited to write the response to this section — I have never read Meillassoux’s After Finitude, for instance, and have no particular desire to do so. Nevertheless,...
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Mythology, Madness and Laughter – Discipline Between Two Freedoms 2.0-2.1
These two sections seem to constitute an expositional groundwork for Zizek’s argument, setting up what is by now a familiar pattern in Zizek’s reading of German Idealism: Kant gives us the fundamental...
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Mythology, Madness and Laughter – Discipline Between Two Freedoms 2.2-2.4
The latest summary for our reading group has been provided by Jeremy Ridenour who is a graduate student working in psychoanalysis and blogs on philosophy, religion and psychoanalysis at JRidenour. –...
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Mythology, Madness and Laughter – Fichte’s Laughter 3.0-3.2
Another guest post from Jeremy Ridenour provides the opening summary for the final chapter. -APS Zizek begins this section arguing that we can learn a great deal by trying to think of how philosophers...
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Mythology, Madness and Laughter – Fichte’s Laughter 3.3-3.4
Žižek continues his discussion of Fichte in this chapter using what feels like a phoned in method: a few clever movie references here (sometimes with the date and sometimes without as if he can’t be...
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Mythology, Madness and Laughter – Fichte’s Laughter 3.5.-3.7
Žižek continues his reading of Fichte by renewing his claim that what is radical in Fichte’s thought is the “absolutely central role of the notion of limitation” or finitude (151). Žižek holds that...
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Mythology, Madness and Laughter Event Round Up
Thanks to Continuum for the review copies of the book. Consider picking up a copy (Amazon: US, UK) if you didn’t read along during our discussion, but it seemed like something you may be interested in....
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